Onward and upward with the arts.
First he outsolemnized Ingmar Bergman with Interiors. Then, with
Stardust Memories, he scored a modest 5 out of Fellini's 8½. Now
Woody Allen has transported Shakespeare's "wood near Athens" to upstate
New York at the turn of this century for A Midsummer Night's Sex
Comedy. As might be expected, none of these homage-pastiches measures
up to the original. But then, neither Bergman nor Fellini nor even
Shakespeare ever tried writing a Woody Allen comedy.

Allen did tryeight times, from Play It Again Sam to Manhattanto the
kind...